Fishing Pier

We asked the experts, from biologists to tackle shop owners, to name the best places for crabbing in Maryland. Here are the Top 10 places we heard about: Point Lookout, Route 5, St. Mary's County Solomons Island fishing pier, Route 2, Calvert County Kings Landing Park , off Route 4, Calvert County Matapeake State Park , Route 8, Kent Island Romancoke Pier, Route 8, south end of Kent Island Bill...

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A 29-year-old man was in cardiac arrest after being struck by lightning on the fishing pier at Fort Smallwood Park in Pasedena, Anne Arundel fire officials said Sunday. Witnesses called an ambulance after the man was found unconscious after they heard a clap of thunder on Sunday afternoon. He was given CPR and was transported to Maryland Shock Trauma. Fire officials did not have information about the man's condition.

We asked the experts, from biologists to tackle shop owners, to name the best places for crabbing in Maryland. Here are the Top 10 places we heard about: Point Lookout, Route 5, St. Mary's County Solomons Island fishing pier, Route 2, Calvert County Kings Landing Park , off Route 4, Calvert County Matapeake State Park , Route 8, Kent Island Romancoke Pier, Route 8, south end of Kent Island Bill...

The State Highway Administration plans to double the size of the fishing pier it is creating from the remains of the old Severn River Bridge near Annapolis.The pier, which will stretch from the 6-acre Jonas Green State Park, was proposed at 280 feet long. But roads officials say a longer pier would be "more of an attraction."They have told bridge contractor Cianbro Inc. not to tear down a second 280-foot section while they decide what to do, said Ernest L. Hodshon, assistant district engineer for construction.

A couple of lights, a few parking spaces, a wooden railing, some plants. That's about all the sprucing up the state is planning for its new 280-foot fishing pier at the old Severn River Bridge.The more ambitious visions of Anne Arundel County Council Chairwoman Diane Evans and a few others for adding a gazebo, benches and water hoses will have to wait.Ms. Evans put together a committee that would sell individual bricks to pay for the resurfacing of the pier and to raise money for the county's Cultural Arts Foundation.

A plan to raise money for the arts in Anne Arundel County by selling bricks to resurface a fishing pier is on hold.Diane R. Evans, the Anne Arundel County Council chairwoman, said her proposal to spruce up the pier will have to wait until state officials finish work on the pier and decide what agency will own and manage the site.The State Highway Administration owns the pier, but the Department of Natural Resources typically runs fishing piers.A panel of representatives from both agencies has been working on a management agreement.

Anne Arundel County could get its first public fishing pier in a couple of years - residents behind the project have their sights set on a 300-foot-long model - with the help of a Naval Academy professor who likes to give his students real-life experience. Four midshipmen are designing the pier for Downs Memorial Park in Pasadena as part of their ocean engineering senior project, which could lead to the county's only public fishing pier on its nearly 500 miles of shoreline. The midshipmen's work, which will include a feasibility study, could save the county $10,000 to $15,000, said County Council Chairwoman Shirley Murphy, a Pasadena Democrat.

Anytime George Bentz wants to drop a line or just appreciate his water views, he walks out onto his pier on the Marley Neck Peninsula. "I have all the facilities I need," he said. Though Anne Arundel County boasts 530 miles of shoreline, pier access is a luxury mostly limited to people who live along the waterfront or in beach communities. Until three weeks ago, the county had only one public pier. With Bentz's help, that has changed. This weekend, county officials planned to celebrate the formal opening at Downs Park in Pasadena of a 300-foot T-shape pier, the first in the county specifically designed for fishing.

Quentin Tokar will not be rejoining his classmates Monday on the first day of school at Thurmont Elementary. He's still recovering after being stabbed by a stingray's barb in a freak accident. But when he gets back, he'll have quite a story to tell. The 10-year-old fifth-grader will remain at home recovering from the injury he suffered while on his family vacation in North Carolina's Outer Banks last week. Quentin was released from Johns Hopkins Children's Center last Saturday, said his mother, Candace Tokar.

A 29-year-old man was in cardiac arrest after being struck by lightning on the fishing pier at Fort Smallwood Park in Pasedena, Anne Arundel fire officials said Sunday. Witnesses called an ambulance after the man was found unconscious after they heard a clap of thunder on Sunday afternoon. He was given CPR and was transported to Maryland Shock Trauma. Fire officials did not have information about the man's condition.

Quentin Tokar will not be rejoining his classmates Monday on the first day of school at Thurmont Elementary. He's still recovering after being stabbed by a stingray's barb in a freak accident. But when he gets back, he'll have quite a story to tell. The 10-year-old fifth-grader will remain at home recovering from the injury he suffered while on his family vacation in North Carolina's Outer Banks last week. Quentin was released from Johns Hopkins Children's Center last Saturday, said his mother, Candace Tokar.

As the politicians and bureaucrats blather on about fixing what ails the Chesapeake Bay while farms and subdivisions continue to flush away, a group of Anne Arundel County students and teachers are doing their part to make the upper bay more fish- and fisherman-friendly. The kids, budding scientists who go to Chesapeake Bay Middle School, want to drape a necklace of submerged concrete reef balls around the 300-foot fishing pier at Downs Park in Pasadena. "All of us want to do this to help the environment.

Bill Burton, who fished with presidents, Colts and Orioles, told generations of Maryland anglers where the big ones were biting and was commissioned an "Admiral of the Chesapeake" by one governor, died early Monday morning of cancer. He was 82. A Pasadena resident, Mr. Burton was for 37 years the outdoors editor of The Evening Sun before taking a buyout in 1992. He continued to write for the Bay Weekly and The Capital in Annapolis until his second retirement in late June. "It's a sad day. We've lost a great guy. He was a legend," said Brooks Robinson, the Orioles Hall of Fame third baseman who fished and hunted with Mr. Burton.

Two decades after he successfully lobbied to turn the old U.S. 50 bridge over the Choptank River into a fishing pier, Bill Burton was honored Wednesday when the state named the popular site after him. At the urging of Gov. Martin O'Malley and the Department of Natural Resources, the Board of Public Works approved the measure Wednesday by a unanimous vote. "It overwhelms me to think that they think enough of me to do that," said Burton, 82. "There's a hell of a lot of pride in that." The Board of Public Works also voted Wednesday to rename the Overlook at Green Ridge State Forest after longtime DNR forester Francis Zumbrun.

A grease blockage caused leakage of about 1,200 gallons of wastewater next to a fishing pier at Lake Elkhorn in Columbia this week, and warning signs will be posted there for about two weeks, according to Robert M. Beringer, utilities bureau chief for Howard County. Beringer said the wastewater was forced up from a manhole cover in a 12-inch sewer line next to the foot path that runs between the fishing pier and a two-story pavilion near the lake's dam. The blockage was caused by grease from restaurants upstream, off Snowden River Parkway.

A grease blockage caused leakage of about 1,200 gallons of wastewater next to a fishing pier at Lake Elkhorn in Columbia this week, and warning signs will be posted there for about two weeks, according to Robert M. Beringer, utilities bureau chief for Howard County. Beringer said the wastewater was forced up from a manhole cover in a 12-inch sewer line next to the foot path that runs between the fishing pier and a two-story pavilion near the lake's dam. The blockage was caused by grease from restaurants upstream, off Snowden River Parkway.

CAPE CHARLES, Va. -- Robert Wooster Jr. hauls lumber from North Carolina to Salisbury, so he's driven the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel dozens of times. He's seen the sea gulls perched on the bridge lampposts, the ships heading to sea and the way the blue-green water shimmers in the late afternoon sun. But he had never stopped, until one day last month. What took so long? "We're 68 feet long, so there's nowhere for us to stop," says Wooster, 31. His 7-year-old son Robbie helpfully adds, "That's with truck and trailer."

When George Bentz was a little boy, he would get his bamboo pole and spend the day sitting on the riverbank in Pasadena, fishing with his grandfather. By the time he was a teenager, he found fishing so exciting that he rode his bicycle from Baltimore to Pasadena just so he could fish. Over the years, Bentz has belonged to several fishing associations but didn't like the politics and eventually canceled all his memberships. Then, in 1991, Bentz was asked by a group of local fishermen to start a fishing club.